lwn.git/kernel, branch docs-6.5-2

Merge tag 'locking_urgent_for_v6.4_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-05-14T15:00:46+00:00

Pull locking fix from Borislav Petkov: - Make sure __down_read_common() is always inlined so that the callers' names land in traceevents output and thus the blocked function can be identified * tag 'locking_urgent_for_v6.4_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking/rwsem: Add __always_inline annotation to __down_read_common() and inlined callers

Merge tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.4_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-05-14T14:56:51+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Borislav Petkov: - Make sure the PEBS buffer is flushed before reprogramming the hardware so that the correct record sizes are used - Update the sample size for AMD BRS events - Fix a confusion with using the same on-stack struct with different events in the event processing path * tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.4_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel/ds: Flush PEBS DS when changing PEBS_DATA_CFG perf/x86: Fix missing sample size update on AMD BRS perf/core: Fix perf_sample_data not properly initialized for different swevents in perf_tp_event()

Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v6.4_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-05-14T14:50:34+00:00

Pull scheduler fix from Borislav Petkov: - Fix a couple of kernel-doc warnings * tag 'sched_urgent_for_v6.4_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: fix cid_lock kernel-doc warnings

tick/broadcast: Make broadcast device replacement work correctly

2023-05-08T21:18:16+00:00

When a tick broadcast clockevent device is initialized for one shot mode then tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() OR's the periodic broadcast mode cpumask into the oneshot broadcast cpumask. This is required when switching from periodic broadcast mode to oneshot broadcast mode to ensure that CPUs which are waiting for periodic broadcast are woken up on the next tick. But it is subtly broken, when an active broadcast device is replaced and the system is already in oneshot (NOHZ/HIGHRES) mode. Victor observed this and debugged the issue. Then the OR of the periodic broadcast CPU mask is wrong as the periodic cpumask bits are sticky after tick_broadcast_enable() set it for a CPU unless explicitly cleared via tick_broadcast_disable(). That means that this sets all other CPUs which have tick broadcasting enabled at that point unconditionally in the oneshot broadcast mask. If the affected CPUs were already idle and had their bits set in the oneshot broadcast mask then this does no harm. But for non idle CPUs which were not set this corrupts their state. On their next invocation of tick_broadcast_enable() they observe the bit set, which indicates that the broadcast for the CPU is already set up. As a consequence they fail to update the broadcast event even if their earliest expiring timer is before the actually programmed broadcast event. If the programmed broadcast event is far in the future, then this can cause stalls or trigger the hung task detector. Avoid this by telling tick_broadcast_setup_oneshot() explicitly whether this is the initial switch over from periodic to oneshot broadcast which must take the periodic broadcast mask into account. In the case of initialization of a replacement device this prevents that the broadcast oneshot mask is modified. There is a second problem with broadcast device replacement in this function. The broadcast device is only armed when the previous state of the device was periodic. That is correct for the switch from periodic broadcast mode to oneshot broadcast mode as the underlying broadcast device could operate in oneshot state already due to lack of periodic state in hardware. In that case it is already armed to expire at the next tick. For the replacement case this is wrong as the device is in shutdown state. That means that any already pending broadcast event will not be armed. This went unnoticed because any CPU which goes idle will observe that the broadcast device has an expiry time of KTIME_MAX and therefore any CPUs next timer event will be earlier and cause a reprogramming of the broadcast device. But that does not guarantee that the events of the CPUs which were already in idle are delivered on time. Fix this by arming the newly installed device for an immediate event which will reevaluate the per CPU expiry times and reprogram the broadcast device accordingly. This is simpler than caching the last expiry time in yet another place or saving it before the device exchange and handing it down to the setup function. Replacement of broadcast devices is not a frequent operation and usually happens once somewhere late in the boot process. Fixes: 9c336c9935cf ("tick/broadcast: Allow late registered device to enter oneshot mode") Reported-by: Victor Hassan Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87pm7d2z1i.ffs@tglx

sched: fix cid_lock kernel-doc warnings

2023-05-08T08:58:28+00:00

Fix kernel-doc warnings for cid_lock and use_cid_lock. These comments are not in kernel-doc format. kernel/sched/core.c:11496: warning: Cannot understand * @cid_lock: Guarantee forward-progress of cid allocation. on line 11496 - I thought it was a doc line kernel/sched/core.c:11505: warning: Cannot understand * @use_cid_lock: Select cid allocation behavior: lock-free vs spinlock. on line 11505 - I thought it was a doc line Fixes: 223baf9d17f2 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230428031111.322-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

perf/core: Fix perf_sample_data not properly initialized for different swevents in perf_tp_event()

2023-05-08T08:58:26+00:00

data->sample_flags may be modified in perf_prepare_sample(), in perf_tp_event(), different swevents use the same on-stack perf_sample_data, the previous swevent may change sample_flags in perf_prepare_sample(), as a result, some members of perf_sample_data are not correctly initialized when next swevent_event preparing sample (for example data->id, the value varies according to swevent). A simple scenario triggers this problem is as follows: # perf record -e sched:sched_switch --switch-output-event sched:sched_switch -a sleep 1 [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 0 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209014396 ] [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 0 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209014662 ] [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 0 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209014910 ] [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209015164 ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.069 MB perf.data. ] # ls -l total 860 -rw------- 1 root root 95694 Apr 12 09:01 perf.data.2023041209014396 -rw------- 1 root root 606430 Apr 12 09:01 perf.data.2023041209014662 -rw------- 1 root root 82246 Apr 12 09:01 perf.data.2023041209014910 -rw------- 1 root root 82342 Apr 12 09:01 perf.data.2023041209015164 # perf script -i perf.data.2023041209014396 0x11d58 [0x80]: failed to process type: 9 [Bad address] Solution: Re-initialize perf_sample_data after each event is processed. Note that data->raw->frag.data may be accessed in perf_tp_event_match(). Therefore, need to init sample_data and then go through swevent hlist to prevent reference of NULL pointer, reported by [1]. After fix: # perf record -e sched:sched_switch --switch-output-event sched:sched_switch -a sleep 1 [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 0 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209442259 ] [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 0 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209442514 ] [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 0 times ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209442760 ] [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ] [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2023041209443003 ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.069 MB perf.data. ] # ls -l total 864 -rw------- 1 root root 100166 Apr 12 09:44 perf.data.2023041209442259 -rw------- 1 root root 606438 Apr 12 09:44 perf.data.2023041209442514 -rw------- 1 root root 82246 Apr 12 09:44 perf.data.2023041209442760 -rw------- 1 root root 82342 Apr 12 09:44 perf.data.2023041209443003 # perf script -i perf.data.2023041209442259 | head -n 5 perf 232 [000] 66.846217: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=232 prev_prio=120 prev_state=D ==> next_comm=perf next_pid=234 next_prio=120 perf 234 [000] 66.846449: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=234 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=perf next_pid=232 next_prio=120 perf 232 [000] 66.846546: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=232 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=perf next_pid=234 next_prio=120 perf 234 [000] 66.846606: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=234 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=perf next_pid=232 next_prio=120 perf 232 [000] 66.846646: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=232 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=perf next_pid=234 next_prio=120 [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202304250929.efef2caa-yujie.liu@intel.com Fixes: bb447c27a467 ("perf/core: Set data->sample_flags in perf_prepare_sample()") Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230425103217.130600-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com

locking/rwsem: Add __always_inline annotation to __down_read_common() and inlined callers

2023-05-08T08:58:24+00:00

Apparently despite it being marked inline, the compiler may not inline __down_read_common() which makes it difficult to identify the cause of lock contention, as the blocked function in traceevents will always be listed as __down_read_common(). So this patch adds __always_inline annotation to the common function (as well as the inlined helper callers) to force it to be inlined so the blocking function will be listed (via Wchan) in traceevents. Fixes: c995e638ccbb ("locking/rwsem: Fold __down_{read,write}*()") Reported-by: Tim Murray Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Waiman Long Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503023351.2832796-1-jstultz@google.com

Merge tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2023-05-05T20:11:02+00:00

Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Make buffer_percent read/write. The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only. This was not noticed because testing was done as root without SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE. - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the reasons for adding it was not implemented. That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function. The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging. TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too. * tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file

Merge tag 'locking-core-2023-05-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-05-05T19:56:55+00:00

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: - Introduce local{,64}_try_cmpxchg() - a slightly more optimal primitive, which will be used in perf events ring-buffer code - Simplify/modify rwsems on PREEMPT_RT, to address writer starvation - Misc cleanups/fixes * tag 'locking-core-2023-05-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking/atomic: Correct (cmp)xchg() instrumentation locking/x86: Define arch_try_cmpxchg_local() locking/arch: Wire up local_try_cmpxchg() locking/generic: Wire up local{,64}_try_cmpxchg() locking/atomic: Add generic try_cmpxchg{,64}_local() support locking/rwbase: Mitigate indefinite writer starvation locking/arch: Rename all internal __xchg() names to __arch_xchg()

ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached

2023-05-05T15:09:25+00:00

If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the behavior of the code. Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS. And include this new modify attribute. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home Cc: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)